Roanoke Times
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DATE: MONDAY, May 31, 1993 TAG: 9305310011
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For organizers, there are no guitars to tune or egos to soothe. Image Makers Rock 'n' Roll Art Expo, which recently stopped at the Boston Center for the Arts while on a nationwide tour, features not the stars' music, but 150 pieces of their visual art.
For the musicians, it's another outlet for their creativity.
The show's centerpiece is "John Lennon: Imagine," featuring 80 ink drawings by the slain Beatle, including all 15 of his "Bag One" pieces, which were confiscated for being too erotic when displayed in London in 1970.
How much has Maya Angelou's life changed since reading the poem she wrote for President Clinton's inauguration?
She has two books on the bestseller lists. Strangers come up and hug her. She gets more than a thousand letters a week, some addressed simply to "Maya Angelou, North Carolina."
"That has put a decided strain on the post office in our little village," Angelou joked Sunday at the American Booksellers Association Convention in Miami Beach, Fla. The 65-year-old poet is a resident of Winston-Salem, N.C., no mere country hamlet.
The estranged prince and princess of Wales made a rare appearance together Sunday in Liverpool, England, at a service marking the 50th anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic.
Charles and Diana joked and chatted together, in marked contrast to their glum public dealings before their formal separation in December.
They traveled together from the royal yacht Britannia, moored at Liverpool's Pier Head, to the world's largest Anglican Cathedral for the ceremony honoring those who fought in the maritime battle from 1939 to 1945.
About 2,500 veterans of the World War Two sea campaign were joined by officials including Prime Minister John Major.
by CNB